According to a post on Rivals.com, a recruiting website owned by Yahoo!, football players are not allowed to shake hands after games. That’s right – no sportsmanlike handshake after the contest.

First Coast head coach Marty Lee told Rivals that the rule was implemented after an incident last year between Middleburg and Leon (Tallahassee).

Here’s the graf from Rivals: ” That incident was a post-game shoving match that turned into a fracas following a Leon (Tallahassee) victory. The game ended 17-14 in a somewhat controversial manner, with Leon scoring the game-winning touchdown as time expired. As the two teams approached each other and began shaking hands – one thing led to another and – well, you get the picture.”

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Roy Fuoco and Bill Kemp cover high school sports for The Ledger.

Roy is a native of Boston, the best sports city in the nation, and is a graduate of the University of Central Florida. He has covered Polk County high school sports since 1992, chronicling the achievements of 29 teams that won state titles, including three teams that finished No. 1 in national rankings. He also has covered the Cleveland Indians in spring training for six years, the 2004 Stanley Cup finals, 2009 Super Bowl, UCF college football games, numerous sporting events involving the Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and numerous college football bowl games.

Bill was raised in the sports-crazed Motor City metropolitian area and is a graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa. He has covered more than 3,000 sporting events including: the Jacksonville Jaguars, Super Bowl XXXVI and the NFL playoffs, SEC football and major college bowl games involving Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Michigan and Penn State, NASCAR racing at the Daytona 500 and Talladega Superspeedway plus 14 years of preps.